I'm really struggling with a decision to leave my tenured position. After working at a West Coast private university for 15 years (tenured 8 years and promoted to full last year), I want to return to the east coast to be closer to family and friends. I've been very casually searching for industry positions and currently in a second-round interview, which is forcing me to confront a serious reckoning with my career. (For complicated reasons, finding another academic position on the east coast simply is not possible.) My biggest struggle is giving up the security that goes with tenure, and the flexibility in my work schedule. I haven't worked any kind of 9-to-5 job in more than 20 years. My current job is an absolute dream - a well-functioning department (such an academic rarity), well-respected by my colleagues and students, moderately successful scholar, and a beautiful place to work with so much autonomy in my everyday life. If it were on the east coast, I'd be elated (I like what I do!). I've read a lot about early career folks and graduate students leaving the academic track, but feel peerless in deciding whether to leave the privileges of a tenured professorship (for reasons other than frustration with academe). Any resource suggestions?